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Top 60 All-Time Jays: #1 Roy Halladay
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Harry Leroy Halladay | SP | 1998-2009
Finally finished pushing this particular rock up to the top of the hill. I’ll likely do a few ‘just missed outs’.
Like I said yesterday, Stieb and Halladay really should be tied at the top of the list.
Roy Halladay was born May 14, 1977, in
Denver, Colorado. He was drafted in the 1st round of the 1995 amateur draft by the
Blue Jays out of Arvada West High School, where he played baseball and basketball. He was the 17th pick overall.
Darin Erstad was the first pick that year. Other notables picked up before him were
Top 60 All-Time Jays: #2 Dave Stieb
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David Andrew Stieb | SP | 1979-1992, 1998
I go back and forth on who was the best pitcher in
Blue Jays history. We should have them tied at number one. By bWAR, Stieb is number one. By fWAR,
Roy Halladay is number one. They played in different eras; batters didn’t strike out as much when Stieb pitched, pitchers didn’t complete as many games in Halladay’s time. Stieb was the best AL pitcher of the 1980s, Halladay was the best AL pitcher of the 2000s. Halladay is in the
Hall of Fame. Stieb should be. Stieb pitched 670 more innings, and sometimes I think that should tip the scale in his favor, but both were at the top of the league in innings pitched.
MLB s milestone players: 10,000th-19,000th By JohnW53 on Apr 17, 2021, 6:58am CDT +
20,000th player since the the first game played in the National Association, the first true league.
Through Thursday, the count stood at
19,944.
This is the second of 2 posts looking at the players who were the 1,000th, 2,000th, etc., to appear in a big league game.
This post covers the 10,000th through 19,000th.
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Andy Kosco, pinch hitter, age 23, for Minnesota Twins, American League
Kosco became No. 10,000 exactly 94 years, 3 months and 9 days after the first 18 players squared off on May 4, 1871.
That is 34,434 days.
He pinch hit for pitcher Garry Roggenburk with 1 out and nobody on in the eighth inning at Cleveland, with the Twins behind, 3-1.
Carlos Juan Delgado | 1B | 1993-2004
Carlos Delgado was born June 25, 1972 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. The Blue Jays signed him as an amateur free agent in 1988 when he was just 16 (one of the many.